Medical Coding & Billing - General Duties and Jobs

What are the various duties that the medical coding and medical billing professionals have to do? Computerization and globalization has greatly helped in successfully managing the country's vast health care and health insurance needs of the people. The fast growing community of medical coders and billers is a force to reckon with. Here is a list of some of the duties that they may have to handle in the course of their work.

• Insurance benefits presentation to patients / clients
• Administrative work / bookkeeping
• Completion of claim forms
• Medical billing procedure handling
• Signature verification
• Data entry
• Supervision work
• Adhering to each insurance carrier's policies and procedures
• Software based medical data/charts analysis
• Interaction with healthcare providers
• Billing work of insurance companies
• Documenting all activities using the right medical terms
• Scheduling appointments

What are the different jobs and designations that medical coders / billers can get? Depending on the type of work specialization, and the employer, these are some of the different job titles the qualified medical coders/ billers work may work under.

• Billing Specialist
• Patient Account Representative
• Electronic Claims Processor
• Billing Coordinator
• Coding Specialist
• Health Information technician
• Claims Analyst
• Reimbursement Specialist
• Claims Assistant
• Professional Medical Collector
• Claims Processor
• Claims Reviewer

We know that while claiming the reimbursement for the medical bill from an insurance company it is necessary to prove the medical necessity of the case! It is the medical coder who needs to scan all patient data / record and then prove that all the rendered services were justified.
One of the interesting aspects of working in this sector of the health care industry is that the requirements for the medical biller /coder's job is never limited by either location, gender, race, religion, or physical disabilities. It is well known that the demand for medical and pharmaceutical services is ever increasing and therefore medical coders and billers are getting good employment opportunities.